Shouvik Banerjee

Writer’s Block is a blasted lie!December 14, 2019
From John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison to Rumaan Alam and Nora Ephron, from old to new, famous writers and authors have not only trashed the idea of writer’s block but they have also called it fiction, a question that hasn’t been solved yet and a concept that is most definitely a lie.
The BeggarDecember 8, 2019
…I was sitting at one of the innumerable fast-food stalls spread around Dalhousie, their cheap allure and rich aroma attracting workers and beggars with equal eagerness. I looked up from my plate of stir-fried noodles at my uninvited guest – a bare-chested man…

It’s hard for me to put my finger on the exact moment in my life when I wanted to become a writer. In fact, I never had any plans to become one. But as Paulo Coelho puts it in The Alchemist, Maktub, so it was meant to be in my life too. Read more

Written in an unconventional format of a fable within a narrative, the book takes an explorative journey into the nature of failure and why we need to identify and embrace it. Read more